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... beauty , good nature and great vanity , have done all of me that was worth doing . I've had my heart broken , ages ago , when I was a boy- then mended , cracked , beaten in , kicked about old corridors , and finally , I think ...
... beauty , good nature and great vanity , have done all of me that was worth doing . I've had my heart broken , ages ago , when I was a boy- then mended , cracked , beaten in , kicked about old corridors , and finally , I think ...
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... beauty of Puritan women , it gave an uncertain promise of future per- formance , of a hidden , reticent beauty ! The architect lingered in the lane , watching the sun fade from the windows of the house , until the air suddenly became ...
... beauty of Puritan women , it gave an uncertain promise of future per- formance , of a hidden , reticent beauty ! The architect lingered in the lane , watching the sun fade from the windows of the house , until the air suddenly became ...
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... Beauty and all the Muses smiled " Whom Nature loved so well She must her dearest secret to him tell , " And wish she had yet more To give ( she did not know her heart before ; " Man knew not his ; for when Her Shakespeare sang the world ...
... Beauty and all the Muses smiled " Whom Nature loved so well She must her dearest secret to him tell , " And wish she had yet more To give ( she did not know her heart before ; " Man knew not his ; for when Her Shakespeare sang the world ...
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... Joe thought the rifle a beauty , and turned it over admiringly in the shadow of the cave . They tried shooting at a mark , and then decided to go up Oak Creek for a shot at the gray squirrels . There they sighted a 48 Mahala Joe.
... Joe thought the rifle a beauty , and turned it over admiringly in the shadow of the cave . They tried shooting at a mark , and then decided to go up Oak Creek for a shot at the gray squirrels . There they sighted a 48 Mahala Joe.
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... beauty and picturesque- ness of the way ; to transfer the compe- tition from mere size to beauty ; to change the goal from effectiveness through repe- tition to effectiveness through delight ; to substitute quality for quantity ? The ...
... beauty and picturesque- ness of the way ; to transfer the compe- tition from mere size to beauty ; to change the goal from effectiveness through repe- tition to effectiveness through delight ; to substitute quality for quantity ? The ...
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Page 735 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
Page 342 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way a man could devise to lose so much...
Page 732 - Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 137 - It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance...
Page 437 - I should belie my own conscience, if I said less, than that I think WH to be, in his natural and healthy state, one of the wisest and finest spirits breathing. So far from being ashamed of that intimacy, which was betwixt us, it is my boast that I was able for so many years to have preserved it entire; and I think I shall go to my grave without finding, or expecting to find, such another companion.
Page 719 - It may be pertinacity," said he, at length ; " but to my eye these grey hills and all this wild border country have beauties peculiar to themselves. I like the very nakedness of the land ; it has something bold, and stern, and solitary about it. When I have been for some time in the rich scenery about Edinburgh, which is like ornamented garden land, I begin to wish myself back again among my own honest grey hills ; and if I did not see the heather at least once a year, I think I should die!
Page 212 - ... contracted as it had been before the long custom of war had robbed human life of its sanctity, and while it still seemed murderous to slay a brother man. This one circumstance has borne more fruit for me than all that history tells us of the fight.
Page 732 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 207 - I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether proper, especially as regards this book, which would have had no existence without his kindness ; and if he is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there is so much the more need that an old friend should...
Page 436 - ... love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father ; a passion that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds remove feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.